Wednesday, December 31, 2008

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Hmmm... I got my certification to be a legal assistant and got a permanent position at my office. I participated in my first trial team win.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't recall making any, and I don't plan to make any this year. Though in GENERAL, I would like to yell at my kids less, lose weight, get healthy, and fit into my old pants.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Not anyone superclose like family... but I had some friends/extended family have babies.

4. Did anyone close to you die? Aaron's grandma passed away last month.

5. What countries did you visit? The good ol' U.S. of A.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? a yard, more square footage... a waistline.

9. What was your biggest failure? losing weight. and likewise gaining weight over the holidays.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? nothing major.

11. What was the best thing you bought? hmmm... the twilight books. I say they were the best thing because they provided me with hours of entertainment. Still do, as I am still reading many fanfics!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? I have to say Mr. Nolan's! We've seen an overall improvement in behavior (though we are still working on it) and he's fully potty trained!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Employees of a local county. Can't say who. Can't say why.

14. Where did most of your money go? daycare. mortgage. the usual.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? The Twilight Movie and the New Kids on the Block concert.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008? Single by NKOTB and Disturbia by Rihanna (or as the kids call it 'sturvia'.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:a) happier or sadder? sadder probably.b) thinner or fatter? sadly, fatter.c) richer or poorer? richer theoretically.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of? More outside time with the boys in the summer. More outings and I wish we'd actually gone biking.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? eating.

20. How did you spend Christmas? Christmas eve at my aunt's, spent the night at my mom's and hooked up with Aaron's family the weekend before.

21. Did you fall in love in 2008? Yes. With Edward.

22. What was your favorite TV program? Probably John and Kate Plus 8. It's an addiction.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Hate is a strong word. But I loathe Sarah Palin, and I didn't know of her at this time last year. And there are a few people personally I would like to hit with my car or see fall of the face of the earth (and many of them I haven't even officially met!)

24. What was the best book you read? Twilight. New Moon. and ECLIPSE. ahhh I loved eclipse.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery? that NKOTB sang the song 'Single' ... and probably Carrie Underwood. I never liked her because of the 'Idol' factor, but I like her first album.

26. What did you want and get? my job.

27. What did you want and not get? to my goal weight.

28. What was your favorite film of this year? probably.... Four Christmases... I don't really remember any of the other movies I saw besides Twilight, and um, no.

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 31, and I cannot remember for the life of me what we did. I think we may have gone to Red Robin for dinner, but I have no idea.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? To have lost the weight. blah blah blah.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? I don't know... I bought new jeans. First time in 3 years... I think basically my personal fashion concept would be 'wear what fits.'

32. What kept you sane? coffee.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Any one of the New Kids and of course Robert Pattinson.

34. What political issue stirred you the most? The presidential race of course.

35. Who did you miss? my grandma. my grandpa. my other grandma.

36. Who was the best new person you met? not sure.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008. that life is precious and temporary.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. coming up with a big fat blank here.

Monday, December 29, 2008

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!

I'm on VACATION! Of course, we really don't have much going on other than laying around, playing with the kids, catching up on laundry... and all on our own schedule. Heavenly. I also have BIG plans to declutter this place. I got lots of new jammie pants for christmas, so that's the first drawer I'm going to attack. Then I'm going to go through the rest of my drawers, boxes, shelves etc. Then we'll attack the boys' toys.

If I have any energy after that I'll give Asa a haircut and declutter the pantry and storage. Exciting times around here I tell ya!

It was a tad windy when it snowed... I was highly amused at the amount of snow under the carport.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Brawling.

So have I mentioned that Nolan and Seth have reached that amazing point of brotherhood where they enage in full body contact brawling? Luckily they aren't skilled masters in the art of fighting, but Nolan throws a mean bitch slap and Seth is working on his right hook.

The first time we saw them do this, Aaron and I were so stunned we just sort of stood there, and took it in, and then tried to stop laughing as we pulled them apart.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Stuck Stuck Stuck

Well, I tried to go into work this morning, but we have a good 2 inches of fresh snow on top of the few inches of packed snow and ice we already had. AWESOME. I spun out 3 times before I even attempted to go down our hill. So I came home and shockingly enough couldn't get the car up the driveway, so it's parked further down than normal until Aaron can go out and put chains on it.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Stuck.

So even if I wanted to go in today I wouldn't have made it. We have easily over 8" of standing snow on our road and when I decided to try and go to Fred Meyers a few minutes ago, I almost made it up the short hill that leads to the road, and then promptly got stuck. I managed to get the car turned around and was going to take an alternate route, and got stuck again.

Bad.

My chains broke completely off (they were old, and definitely paid their dues)... 4 kind samaritans tried to help me, and at least got me pushed to where I wasn't blocking the road... Aaron is out there now trying to figure out what to do.

The boys and I are watching Dora and my jeans are drying... I was wearing some regular shoes, as I can't find my boots (but guess what I'll be looking for this afternoon when the boys nap?) and my jeans were soaked up to mid calf snow.

New Boots and mittens! Since we got hit with a big storm, the boys got to open their new winter wear gifts from us early. They were VERY excited about the matching Lightning McQueen hats/mittens and boots.